The European Emperor’s character remains standing

Chapter 133 Warm Wind and Sunset
  They returned in the evening sun, and the breeze blew on their faces on a hot summer day, bringing some comfort. At the same time, it also blew away the colorful photos created together today and the little ripples in Zhu Qingyou's heart.

When the sun sets, the night sky reaches the sky, and the stars are like paint accidentally poured by someone, or like the nervous and exciting heartbeat of young love.

As night fell and the stars officially fell, Karen Zhu returned to her bedroom, opened her diary, and wrote down her truest feelings and heartbeat today.

[Getting together with the deer cub today is like a dream, I am afraid it will disappear in the blink of an eye, and I am afraid I will wake up from the dream when I open my eyes. 】

This is the end of the page. The blank page is filled with words and there is nowhere to write.

Reaching out to turn the page, she started writing again.

Before the dusk ended, I took back my feelings blown away by the warm wind one by one and locked them in my diary.

[To this day, I still can’t believe it when the person in my dream appears in front of me. But I have to believe in the current situation, and I can’t control everything. It's like my state of mind, as sudden as in a dream. 】

[I don’t understand what happened, but that’s what happened. When I understood why I felt this way, my heart told me that this was meant to be. 】

[I want to be the most important person in her memories, a friend, a family member, maybe everyone. 】

[Now that things have happened, I no longer struggle with who I am and what I am. I only care about the people I care about, I don’t want them to get hurt, and I want to protect everything in front of me. 】

[This is the end of my talk about my state of mind. 】

[But there is one thing I have to say and record. If we forget it in the future, we can still recall through writing how happy we were, our friendship and colorful memories. 】

[Anyway, this summer day this year. It is the most profound colorful memory in my memory. Just like salty sweet soda, the name sounds so good, but the taste is more sour than sweet to me, and the same is true for today's memories. 】

——Zhu Qingyoushu

This is the diary recorded by Zhu Qingyou today.

Did you think it was over here?
  not at all.

At the end of the name, there is a sentence written in cyan calligraphy.

It is completely opposite to this summer breeze, which disperses as soon as it blows.

The writer worked hard.

At the same time, there is a little bit of water at the end of this sentence.

The moment the inner confession is finished, the note is closed. Just like Bamboo Qingyou today, my mood is blown away by the warm wind when I return at dusk; on the lake of my heart, there are little ripples caused by the water droplets turned into today's colorful memory photos.

That drop of water turned into a memory, under the shining of the moonlight beside the window coffin, finally fell to the bottom of the lake, and was hidden in her deepest heart and memory.

At the end of the page, the sentence that was written and then closed was only known by the moonlight, stars, night and green bamboo outside the window.

That passage is:

〖May her life be safe and smooth, happy and worry-free. 〗

This is the first half, and beyond that there is the second half.

〖From now on, I will be her friend, always guarding her and never leave her. 〗

That's all what was written in light cyan handwriting. In the closed notes, only the owner of the diary knows what was written after that.

Later, Zhu Qingyou only remembered when she fell asleep.

There was only the sound of the wind blowing bamboo leaves outside the window, and the tears on the pillow and in the corners of the eyes. But there was no sound audible, because it had already sunk deeper.

When I wake up, it’s a new day and my mood is completely new. There are only tears on the pillow, silently telling the coldness of the night before and the wind at night...

For Karen Zhu, it was the moment she made up her mind.

The gentle breeze that blows by my ears when the sun is warm at dusk is also like the wind at night, cooling my heart.

When it's cool to the lowest end, it's a constant stinging pain.

The locked memories were forced to be forgotten by the owner.

A new day begins, with laughter and warm interactions again.

Of course, this was just the surface. She was crying deeper in the memory, and her heart was still hurting.

No one knows what happened. Specifically, only the owner of the memory knows what kind of determination he has made...

As for Zhu Qingyou's feelings when she made up her mind at the end of the day, and the last paragraph of the diary that has not been revealed, just keep it a secret.

Naturally, only one person knows the secret, and the teller of the story has no right to spread the secret owner's state of mind.

The storyteller can only say two or three sentences, which are enough to summarize:
  This day was extremely dreamy for Zhu Qingyou.

Her mood was just like the salty-sweet soda she and Lin Shilu drank, sweet and sour.

The warm sun at dusk brought a complete end to her unspoken words.

Her previous emotions, accompanied by the stars in the night and the green bamboos in the evening wind, were locked in her diary and deep in her heart.

Let's turn the time back to the very beginning of our memories, when Zhu Qingyou and Lin Shilu just went out.

This cannot be regarded as turning back time. If you really care about it, this should be what Zhu Qingyou dreamed about while sleeping.

This is also her experience this day...

Sweet yet sour.

As for the various reasons for this, the biggest one was brought about by meeting the man of her long-awaited dream.

When Lin Shilu was recuperating in Xinggui, Zhu Qingyou didn't realize that the other person was the person she had been dreaming about. She just regarded Lin Shilu and the people recalled in the memory fragments as her own memories.

The same goes for Zhu Qingxuan and Hu Shishi. Although they don't have deep memories of Lin Shilu, they are far less fond of Lin Shilu than Zhu Qingyou does.

It wasn't until Lin Shilu left the star track and she dreamed of the man in her dream again that she realized that Lin Shilu turned out to be the person she had been dreaming about.

In the days and nights that followed, she could no longer distinguish between the man in her dream's feelings for Lin Shilu and her own feelings for her.

Does the person in the dream want to be the other person's best friend, or does he want to be friends with the other person?

Later, came the realm of mysterious dreams.

Xi Ling appeared through Xuan Meng and the backhand arranged by herself. She understood the truth of all this through part of the truth that Xi Ling told herself.

After she became friends with Lin Shilu, she was also worried or entangled. When getting along, does Lin Shilu regard himself as Xi Ling or Zhu Qingyou.

These are what Zhu Qingyou is struggling with today.

Walking with Lin Shilu in the warm sunshine at dusk, with the breeze blowing by her ears, she suddenly realized how to let go.

It doesn't matter who it is!
  The important thing is that in Lin Shilu's eyes, he is not exactly the Xi Ling she saw and remembered with her day and night, but the Zhu Qingyou who had just arrived in the Xuanmeng Realm.

He is Lin Shilu's new friend, Zhu Youyou.

This is enough.

It's a pity, it will still be a pity.

These regrets were sealed in the depths of her memory along with the tears she shed on her pillow at night.

Just like Lin Shilu said after they walked out of the house, walked out of the community, and came to the food street, she was just herself.

Apart from that, she, Zhu Qingyou, is not anyone.

Lin Shilu took Zhu Qingyou to the food street, ready to have a big and special meal.

The food court and commercial street are opposite each other.

These two streets are at the same four-way intersection as the vegetable market and Xuanmeng Academy, and are in different directions.

"Let's have a feast now! Let's browse the many delicacies in the food court together."

Lin Shilu and Zhu Karenyou stood in the corner next to the entrance of the food street, smelling the aroma of food coming from inside. She took a deep breath and said to Zhu Karenyou.

"Okay." Zhu Qingyou was as gentle as ever when facing Lin Shilu, and she agreed with a smile.

The people around him were keenly aware that something was wrong.

"Youyou, what's wrong with you? Are you unhappy?" Lin Shilu stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Zhu Qingyou's eyes, tilted his head and looked at her, puzzled.

"No, what's wrong? Didn't you say you wanted to go to the food court? I'll accompany you." Zhu Qingyou's face remained as usual.

As an intuitive creature, Lin Shilu always felt that something was wrong.

She thought about it and finally decided to follow her gut.

And her intuition told her that she should tug Karen Zhu's cheek now.

Lin Shilu obeyed his inner thoughts, stretched out his hands, and pulled Zhu Qingyou's cheeks on both sides.

"Youyou, don't be unhappy, okay? No matter what you were thinking before, it doesn't matter. What matters is that the one who is with you now is me, Lin Shilu, and the one who is beside me is you, Zhu Quiet."

Their names were emphasized by Lin Shilu. "Do you understand?" Lin Shilu took back his hands and asked.

Looking at Lin Shilu's serious eyes and what he just said, Zhu Qingyou solemnly replied: "Yes, I understand. I really understand this time."

Lin Shilu took a few steps back, put his hands behind his back, and said with a smile, "Can you smile now? Let me see if you are really happy."

Afraid that Karen Zhu would not understand what she said, she stretched out her hand in front of her lips and drew a virtual smile with her index fingers on both sides.

"Like this, smiling."

Zhu Qingyou's eyes were locked on the other party without blinking. Now she only felt her heart beating rapidly.

"Is that right?"

"Correct!"

Lin Shilu stood next to the pillar at the entrance of the food street. His hair and face were covered by a veil of sunlight, making him look extremely hazy.

"Then let's go, I can't wait. By the way, if we both find something delicious, remember to take pictures together. When we go home afterwards, we might as well bring something for An An and the others to try. Of course, you If you want to take a photo alone with me, that’s fine.”

"it is good."

Karen Zhu looked at the person in front of her, a little dazed. Afterwards, she vaguely remembered her answer.

This is the memory of their time together before the warm sun at dusk.

It tastes like salty-sweet soda.

Sweeter than sour!
  For most people, this is a hazy memory from their youth.

Who didn’t have such hazy and dreamy memories when they were young?

Maybe with friends, maybe with family, maybe with that first love that ended in vain.

[Small Theater: What if the exchange of gifts was like this]

The two of them went upstairs one after another and went to the room together to get the gifts prepared for each other.

Downstairs, Zhu Qingxuan and Hu Shishi stared at each other. After the commercial ended, they continued to watch TV together.

After entering the room, Karen Zhu turned around and went to the chair next to the desk, where her clothes were placed, and the gift was in the pocket of her clothes.

Just as I was about to look for gifts, I heard a word coming from my ear:

"Wait a minute, I have a gift for you."

After Karen Zhu turned around, Lin Shilu also opened the desk drawer. She brushed the brush with her fingers and smeared a little paint. She didn't realize it, but she was still focused on looking for the gift in the drawer.

Some strands of hair fell off her ears, and she reached out to stroke her ears, leaving some traces of paint on her cheeks.

It didn't take long for her to find what she was looking for.

After turning around, he saw that Karen Zhu had also found the gift.

Zhu Qingyou showed off her gift first, which was a hairpin. It was also a magical weapon for self-defense. When she took it out, she explained the specific method to Lin Shilu in detail.

"Does it look good?" Lin Shilu inserted the hairpin into his head and asked.

Because she couldn't see it, she inserted it a little crookedly.

Karen Zhu helped to re-correct the position of the fixed hairpin and tidy up the extra hair that was added to the hairpin.

"nice."

The face in front of me coincided with the face of the person in the previous dream, and also overlapped with the deer calf in my memory in the past.

In the other memory, there are more moments with the other person, and there are very few that really belong to me.

The two memories were different. Zhu Qingyou knew it but wanted to blur the boundaries.

She really felt that the deer calf now was healthy and lively, not the sickly one she had when she went to Xinggui before.

Watching the other party put on the hairpin and ask herself, Karen Zhu could clearly feel her heart beating rapidly.

Because it is really beautiful, because of myself, not because of other people.

While reminiscing, Zhu Qingyou's hand couldn't help but touch Lin Shilu's face.

After discovering it, she said calmly: "There is a little dust stuck here."

There was a little bit on Lin Shilu's cheek, and more of it was the broken hair around his ears mixed with dry paint.

It was left behind when she was rummaging for something. In her hurry, she accidentally touched the half-dried paint on the brush.

"I got it on accidentally." Looking at the paint on Zhu Karenyou's hand, Lin Shilu felt a little embarrassed.

Karen Zhu only felt that the pigment mixed in the broken hair was very annoying. She leaned over to clean it up. She said, "Don't move yet. You still have some, especially the broken hair on the ears and temples."

"Oh, we'll do it later. You sit down first. In fact, I also prepared a gift for you."

Lin Shilu didn't need to think about it to know that when he rolled the broken hair behind his ears, there must have been a lot of dry paint, because his movements were mixed into the hair.

She also couldn't wait to show her gift to Karen Zhu, and pulled her to sit on the chair next to the desk.

Take out the gift you prepared.

She did not open the wrapping bag of the gift, but it was stained with some dry paint.

Opening the transparent packaging bag, Lin Shilu took out two small ear clips.

She recalled the method in the instructional video and carefully put it on the other person.

Karen Zhu didn't have her ears pierced, so the first thing she prepared was ear clips.

The one on the left ear is a gold antler ear clip. There is no small chain in the middle, and it looks like an earring.

The right ear is a green bamboo ear clip. The light green bamboo is carved from soft spar and is lifelike.

There is a small chain in the middle connecting the ear clip and the green bamboo. Among them, the ear clip on the earlobe has a careful setting like the left ear.

There is a green bamboo leaf that blocks the style of the ear clip, so it looks like a delicate leaf falling on the earlobe.

After putting it on, Lin Shilu pulled the other person to the bathroom, motioned the other person to look in the mirror, and then asked, "Does this hurt your ears?"

"It doesn't hurt."

Zhu Qingyou shook her head. The green bamboo decoration on her right ear swayed slightly with her movements, but the antler ear clip on her left ear was very stable.

"I've heard that ear clips can be very painful if worn for a long time. And if you don't feel it yourself, there will be a mark of the ear clips on your ears, and it will still hurt when you touch it, so you can't wear them for a long time. Oh." Lin Shilu specially warned.

While talking, the two walked out of the bathroom and returned to the bedroom.

"You tried it yourself." Zhu Qingyou was sure.

"Hehe, after I got the gift, I watched the instructional video and tried it myself. After confirming that there was no problem, I gave it to you today."

Lin Shilu blinked and stuck out his tongue, trying to act cute and get through.

Zhu Karen stretched out her hand and touched Lin Shilu's ear. There was also the mark of the ear clip, but it was very light and looked a little red.

"Does it hurt?" she asked.

"It doesn't hurt!" Lin Shilu replied.

After saying that, she asked: "What do you think of my gift? That day I heard Qingxuan say that it was your birthday not long ago, but you were in Xinggui at that time, and I couldn't go there, so I asked An An specifically and Qingxuan, and then chose this gift for you."

"Very good, very attentive. I like it very much." Karen Zhu felt that her mood was surging. She wanted to cry and laugh at the same time, but she was also very moved.

It is undoubtedly wonderful to have someone thinking about you and taking you to heart.

She couldn't hold it back and stretched out her arms to hug him.

Lin Shilu also hugged her back and patted Zhu Qingyou's back gently with his hand.

"alright!"

　Let An'an write sugar and produce grain myself.

　　With more than 4,500 words, it is considered a huge update.

　　Ahhhhhh, I stabbed myself while writing my diary. Since the diary occupies the space of Sweet Summer, Sweet Summer will be temporarily moved, and Romantic Summer will also be moved. Because Warm Wind and Sunset is long enough.

　　The original names of this chapter are Romantic Summer and Sweet Summer, and they will probably be moved to the later chapters.

　　This chapter is all sweet, there are no knives, and now...just the beginning of the chapter is about knives, and it's a bit of a riddle.

　　It's not a big problem, this is the path Zhu Youyou has chosen, and she is mentally prepared. As for the part that has not been mentioned, everyone can think freely and don’t go too far. After all, this part is You Zai’s own secret, and I can’t say much about An An.

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)